PhD Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley

Programme overview

The program emphasizes intellectual breadth and connections integrating many areas of Linguistics, as well as connections with neighboring disciplines. Faculty expertise in the department spans an unusually diverse range of endeavors. The graduate program accordingly includes a broad range of advanced coursework focusing on analyzing linguistic structure, variation and change, and cognition, using methods including archival research, field methods, experimental and corpus-based analyses, and computational modeling.

Faculty: Graduate Division | Department: Linguistics | Duration: 6 years | Study mode: full-time | Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

All students in the Department of Linguistics graduate program, including those holding a Master’s degree from another institution, must earn a Berkeley MA in Linguistics en route to the PhD. Research training is part of the MA/PhD program from the start. As part of the MA phase of the program, students write an MA Capstone Paper.

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Academia & Education, Communications.

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Application information

Entry requirements

In additional to the general materials required by the University we ask that you include: Writing Sample: A writing sample is required of all applicants. Ideally, this sample would be a research paper on a linguistic topic, but it should in any event demonstrate the applicant's competence in writing analytic expository prose. The writing sample is to be submitted/uploaded with your online application. For detailed information as to what we are looking for please go to our website at Linguistics.

Duration: 6 years

Apply through the official page: https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/

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